Title
English-Chinese Vocabulary for young children v. 4 (英华幼稚识字，第四册)
Year/Period
Mid 20th century
Region
Hong Kong and Singapore
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 18.6 x 14.0 x 0.3 cm
Accession No.
2021-00347
Collection of
This illustrated book features Chinese terms in traditional Chinese characters with zhuyin (注音) and the corresponding English term for young learners to increase their vocabulary.Zhuyin or Mandarin Phonetic symbols were introduced by the Chinese Republican government in the 1910s and is still widely used in Taiwan today. The Chinese community in Singapore also used this system until hanyu pinyin was introduced to schools in Singapore in the early 1980s.In 1958, the Malayan Singapore government banned imports of books from China. Most of the post-war textbooks used in Singapore were written in Singapore but printed in Hong Kong.
